Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Julian Assange: ‘When You Read a Newspaper Article, You Are Reading Weaponized Text’

byChris Black
Julian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks and during a recent
interview, he discussed the hot-topic of fake news, mainstream media and
how Wikileaks data driven approach prevented fake news from being used
as “weaponized text” by the MSM.
According to a CNET report, Julian Assange gave an interview via
Skype and he discussed with Chas Licciardello, an Australian comedian
this week. Wikileaks founder emphasized his refusal to editorialize the
leaked content as he prefers to deliver only raw data to the public,
thus publishing pure facts without bias.
What’s very special about Wikileaks is their pure data approach and
that’s particularly important in the context of fake news. Julian
Assange stressed during the interview that:

“What is special about WikiLeaks is that it’s not just
another damn story, it’s not just another damn journalist putting their
damn byline, advertising themselves and their position on another damn
story.
You’re not reading pre-weaponised knowledge. When you read a
newspaper article, you are reading weaponised text that is designed to
affect a person just like you… I think that is the real beauty of
WikiLeaks… it is that sea of information, that treasure, that
intellectual treasure, that rebel library of Alexandria you can go
into.”...https://www.theissue.com/politics/wikileaks-assange-when-you-read-a-newspaper-article-you-are-reading-weaponized-text